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Overview

Government e-link is a Swedish Statistical Office system.

One of the main functions in the Government e-Link concept is that a standardised label is attached to every document or message sent. This label is created as an XML document and contains information about the sender, receiver and type of document. Government e-Link does not require standardisation of the documents or data files that are exchanged. It is therefore technically possible to exchange all types of documents. However, this means that the communicating parties still need to agree on the data formats used in exchanging formation.

Government e-Link is also expected to help the public authorities in their efforts to collect specific information from a respondent only once. By defining agreements in the Government e-Link system, information collected from a respondent can be distributed to several different authorities.

The first version of Government e-Link is now available and supports secure communication between governmental organisations. Future versions will also extend to enterprises and citizens. Statistics Sweden will start a pilot project with Government e-Link later this year. Government e-Link is expected to become an important part of the Swedish information infrastructure in the next few years.

Source documents containing the complete description

Doc. CoRD031: "Government eLink Generic Services for eGovernment and IDA Application Services (Sweden) "

Doc. CoRD041: "A brief outline of existing data collection tools and new developments at Statistics Sweden"